 Op-ed: WE the supporters, voters and members of the Labour Party are the PARTY. WE all need each other and right now with local elections weeks away it needs all willing and able hands on board.
But WE also need the best people for the job elected to the party's NEC, national executive committee. Divisions between the left and the right of the party mean that some who want to be elected to the NEC openly oppose Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Thanks to Kev Minnette, a prospective Labour councillor, for sharing the following: Dear Comrades For what is probably the first time the right wing slate for the NEC put together by Progress and Labour First is getting far more CLP nominations than the Centre-left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) slate (excepting Ann Black). Progress is a very well-funded organisation with millionaire benefactors and probably has paid employees phoning round CLP’s to get backing for its slate. The CLGA of which CLPD is one of the main organisations, relies entirely on unpaid volunteer party members like yourselves. Therefore, we ask you urgently to do your very best to get CLP’s to nominate for the CLGA slate of Ann Black; Ken Livingstone; Christine Shawcroft; Claudia Webbe; Darren Williams; Peter Willsman. This is a vital task as control of the NEC will decide the future direction of the Labour Party. Yours in socialism Matt Stiles Asst Sec CLPD PS Comrades are also encouraged to press for good Annual Conference delegates from their CLP’s and where possible to stand themselves.
0 Comments
 NEC voting matters The British Tory party are the worst kind of cancer; they have spread to every bit of this country and have damaged the infra-structure so badly it will take years to recover and even longer to eradicate. Every generation has been affected and will carry the scars for a lifetime.
The Tories have now made it law that companies can no longer follow an ethical and humanitarian stand. Some companies will be forced to do business with Israeli firms that are deliberately and steadily eradicating a whole nation. These companies are part of the occupation of Palestine. They stand by while the Palestinian people are forced to leave their homes; they stand back as children are shot. And this government want our companies such as the Co-op to do business with them or be prosecuted. I don’t expect anything different from the Tories. After all they are quite happy to starve, displace and kill off their own people. I however expect better from anyone in the Labour Party. One such person is Luke Akehurst. Not only is he chairman of Labour First he is also part of a group called the Friends Of Israel. He often speaks at their conference but he actually works for BICOM Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM). This company also makes substantial donations to the Conservative party. {Definitely a conflict of interest there} Luke Akehurst is not only a chairman of Labour First he is also a supporter of Progress and an anti-Corbyn promoter. He is also supported in his effort to become a member of the NEC, by Michael Dugher {the person who is tipped to challenge Jeremy in a leadership contest if Labour doesn’t do well in the May elections}. Do we really want people like this in the NEC, a body which makes policy for the Labour party? He is a part of the disease that the Tories are trying to infect the Labour Party with. We need to be letting our CLPs know that people like him do not belong in Labour. The power is in our hands let’s use it to eradicate the cancer in the Labour party. So use your power of veto and use your vote to put people into the NEC who share a true social ideology and that is not Luke Akehurst. From a group of concerned Labour members and voters |
Yourvoice
This blog will include a range of reports and opinion pieces covering many issues. It will be YOUR Voice. Archives
April 2017
Categories
All
|
RSS Feed
